Book 3. (1 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 25 | 46 | On the other hand I had been View more quotes about informed">informed, graciously, by the Muls who manned the portal that it might not be opened by them to release me once I had decided to enter. |
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Book 3. (7 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 25 | 43 | When I came to the portal where I had entered I found it closed as I had known it would be and there was, as I knew, no handle or obvious device for opening the door on this side, for no one returned, supposedly, from the tunnels of the Golden Beetle. |
| 25 | 44 | The portals were opened occasionally to allow the Beetle its run of the Nest but I had no idea when this might occur again. |
| 25 | 45 | Although the portal was thick I supposed that I might have been heard on the outside if I had pounded on it with the hilt of my sword. |
| 25 | 46 | On the other hand I had been informed, graciously, by the Muls who manned the portal that it might not be opened by them to release me once I had decided to enter. |
| 25 | 47 | As they put it, they simply were not permitted to do so. |
| 25 | 48 | It was the law of Priest-Kings. |
| 25 | 49 | I was not certain whether, as a matter of fact, they would open the door or not, but I thought it best that both of them could honestly report that they had seen me enter the tunnels and had not seen me return. |
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When I came to the portal where I had entered I found it closed as I had known it would be and there was, as I knew, no handle or obvious device for opening the door on this side, for no one returned, supposedly, from the tunnels of the Golden Beetle.
The portals were opened occasionally to allow the Beetle its run of the Nest but I had no idea when this might occur again.
Although the portal was thick I supposed that I might have been heard on the outside if I had pounded on it with the hilt of my sword.
On the other hand I had been informed, graciously, by the Muls who manned the portal that it might not be opened by them to release me once I had decided to enter.
As they put it, they simply were not permitted to do so.
It was the law of Priest-Kings.
I was not certain whether, as a matter of fact, they would open the door or not, but I thought it best that both of them could honestly report that they had seen me enter the tunnels and had not seen me return.
- (Priest-Kings of Gor)